At Sicily at the airport in the city of Kataniah on Tuesday, law enforcement officers arrested a fashion model from the Dominican Republic, which tried to deliver a Cocaine party worth 1.2 million euros to Italy. In the stomach, the girl found 98 bags with a drug with a total weight of 1.2 kilograms. Suspicions of the border guards caused a painful type of model that arrived at the airport of Katania Fontanarossa from Brussels. The girl arrived in the country with a Dutch passport.

The state prosecutor asks the Moscow City Court to sentenced to the life imprisonment of the three accused in the case of terrorist attacks at the Riga metro station and the stage between the Paveletskaya and Avtozavodskaya stations in Moscow in 2004.

On the first day of the new, 2007, almost 6.6 billion people will live on the planet. Such data was published in Hanover by the German Fund of World Population , referring to the last statistical calculations. The exact number of people who will live on Earth on January 1, 2007 looks like this: 6 billion 589 million 115 thousand 982 people, ITAR-TASS reports. However, already on the second day of January, the number of inhabitants of the planet will increase.

In a fire in the apartment of a residential building in the southeast of Moscow, four people were killed, including three children. The signal of the fire in a three -room apartment on the second floor of a five -story building on Chistopolskaya Street entered the “01” remote control at about 14:00. “During the extinguishing of a fire from a burning apartment, two children were evacuated. They were breathing in a carbon monoxide and they could not be saved.

On Tuesday in Syktyvkar, at a meeting of the coaching council, following the results of qualifying competitions, Krasnogorskskiy skiing, the composition of the Russian team in skiing on the first skiing multi -day Tour de SKI was determined.

On Tuesday in Iraq, two American soldiers died. Thus, the number of US troops who died in Iraq since March 2003 reached 2974 people. This exceeds the number of victims of large -scale terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, Interfax reports. The bloody terrorist attacks committed by the Islamists in New York and Washington served as the US administration one of the main reasons for the interruption of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Russian Muslims and Jewish communities will take part in the creation of a charitable fund for assistance to wounded military personnel. Their representatives stated this at a press conference held the day before in Moscow. The Russian Orthodox Church previously made the initiative of the establishment of such a fund, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Committee on Constitutional Legislation of the Federation Council on Tuesday spoke out against the ban on holding by the Constitutional Court (CS) of visiting meetings anywhere except St. Petersburg. This norm is contained in amendments to the Law on the Construction of the Constitutional Court of Moscow to St. Petersburg.

The Moscow prosecutor's office removed the accusations of fraud on especially large -scale and forgery from the first deputy general director of the MiG aircraft -building corporation Sergey Tsivilev. The investigation continues, but the investigators hurried to blame Tsivilev and his alleged accomplice of the trade in counterfeit details. In Poland, for which spare parts were intended, they have no complaints about Migu.

In 2007, Kislovodsk was preparing to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the historical concert, which the great Russian bass Fedor Chaliapin gave directly from the veranda of the cottage for numerous residents and guests of Kislovodsk. The opera singer performed right from the open veranda over 30 works. His powerful voice was heard even on the outskirts of the resort city, contemporaries noted.

Gazprom has already prepared to disconnect the gas of Belarus from the New Year, thus repeating the last year's scenario of the Ukrainian Gas War. Now Belarus is the only country that is still buying Russian gas at domestic -Russian prices - $ 45. However, the budget of Gazprom for 2007 contains $ 200 per thousand cubic meters.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov admitted that when severe frosts, the city government would resort to restricting the supply of electricity, but at the same time, according to him, the capital's officials will take all the necessary measures to fully supply the capital in the winter, RIA Novosti reports.

Selling or buying relics and relics is sacrilege, believes Marco Frizin, director of the Liturgical issues of the Papal Vicaria Grad Rome. In an interview with the German website Totus Tuus, the prelate opposed the trade of false shrines associated with John Pavel II , in souvenir shops near the Vatican , the Blagovers-info reports with reference to the Kipa Catholic agency. “It is completely unacceptable to sell or buy shrines in any form.

Although housing prices in the capital are closer to winter, an apartment for the average Muscovite is still inaccessible. In order to turn the situation, the Moscow government has developed an action plan to provide citizens with housing, New Izvestia reports. To hope that in the foreseeable perspective, the prices of apartments will drop sharply is pointless. In these conditions, there is a real danger that housing will not be available to most Muscovites.

The composer, Honored Artist of Russia, Galina Ustvolskaya, who died in St. Petersburg, will be buried on December 27 at the Volkovsky Lutheran cemetery. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the music fund. Farewell to the composer will begin at 10:30 Moscow time in the morgue of Hospital N 26 on Kostyushko Street. Galina Ustvolskaya, one of the brightest students of Dmitry Shostakovich, died in St. Petersburg on December 22 at the age of 87.